Patents by Inventor Michael Wu

Michael Wu has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11425175
    Abstract: Described embodiments enable device users sharing content items via a content management system to view and modify content items within native applications on their client devices. In various embodiments, a client application detects a save operation on a content item and prompts a user to provide a comment based on changes to the content item. User comments and metadata are provided to a content management system to create a historical log that provides a comprehensive summary of user interactions with a content item, including comments regarding content item changes, version information, and timestamps. The content management system provides the comments and other log contents to client applications associated with other users sharing the content item. The client applications use the comments and log information to provide notifications to the users regarding content item changes and comments by sharing users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: DROPBOX, INC.
    Inventors: Anvisha Hrishikesh Pai, Michael Wu
  • Patent number: 11368203
    Abstract: A system and method for one-way ranging is disclosed. The system comprises a transmitter, also referred to as a tag, transmitting a packet having a sounding sequence. The receiver, also referred to as the locator, receives the sounding sequence. The receiver measures and saves the phase at a plurality of points in time. The sounding sequence has two frequencies, which are additive inverses of one another. A discrete Fourier transform is performed on the plurality of phase measurements to determine the phase of each of the two frequencies. The difference between these two frequencies is related to the time that the packet traveled. Additionally, a calibration of the transmit path and/or receive path may be performed to improve the accuracy of the results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Silicon Laboratories Inc.
    Inventors: Terry Lee Dickey, Yan Zhou, Wentao Li, Michael Wu
  • Patent number: 11348586
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided that that may be implemented to extend functionality of a voice assistant and/or telecommunications software to a remote location via an endpoint device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Kang Ou-Yang, Michael Wu, Chung-Hung Liu, Chen Yang Chen, Hsuan-Yin Tsai
  • Publication number: 20220136838
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media are provided for obtaining a slice of static map data comprising a plurality of blocks, each block comprising a plurality of cells, each, each cell having a cell value indicating a probability that an object is present in the cell; loading the slice into a cache memory of a parallel processor; arranging the static map data in the cache memory in contiguous memory spaces assigned to a group of workers of the parallel processor that have coalescing constraints; loading a frame of dynamic map data into the cache memory; obtaining a plurality of scan match candidates each representing a possible position and attitude of the vehicle; processing, in the parallel processor, the static and dynamic map data and the candidates to generate results each representing a candidate and score; and selecting the candidate having the highest score as a vehicle position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Inventors: Mengda Yang, Michael Wu, Ke Li, Piaoyang Cui
  • Publication number: 20220122319
    Abstract: Described herein are systems, methods, and computer readable media for performing data conversion on sensor data to obtain modified sensor data that is formatted/structured appropriately for downstream processes that rely on the sensor data as input. The sensor data can include point cloud data captured by a LiDAR, for example. A grid structure and corresponding grid characteristics can be determined and the sensor data can be converted to grid-based sensor data by associating the grid structure and its characteristics with the sensor data. Generating the grid-based sensor data can include reformatting the point cloud data to superimpose the grid structure and its grid characteristics onto the point cloud data. Various downstream processing that cannot feasibly be performed on the raw sensor data can then be performed efficiently on the modified grid-based sensor data by virtue of the grid structure imbuing the sensor data with spatial proximity information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2021
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Inventors: Pingfan Meng, Michael Wu, Brian James Rush
  • Publication number: 20220113940
    Abstract: This disclosure is directed to a digital signal processing (DSP) block that includes multiple weight registers configurable to receive and store a first plurality of values having multiple precisions, and multiple multipliers that are each configurable to receive a respective value of the first plurality of values. The DSP block further includes one or more inputs configurable to receive a second plurality of values, and a multiplexer network configurable to receive the second plurality of values and route each respective value of the second plurality of values to a multiplier of the multipliers. The multipliers are configurable to simultaneously multiply each value of the first plurality of values by a respective value of the second plurality of values to generate a plurality of products. Additionally, the DSP block includes adder circuitry configurable to generate a first sum and a second sum based on the plurality of products.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Inventors: Martin Langhammer, Michael Wu, Nihat Engin Tunali
  • Publication number: 20220012012
    Abstract: This disclosure is directed to a digital signal processing (DSP) block that includes multiple weight registers configurable to receive and store a first plurality of values, and multiple multipliers that are each configurable to receive a respective value of the first plurality of values. The DSP block further includes one or more inputs configurable to receive a second plurality of values, and a multiplexer network configurable to receive the second plurality of values and route each respective value of the second plurality of values to a multiplier of the multipliers. The multipliers are configurable to simultaneously multiply each value of the first plurality of values by a respective value of the second plurality of values to generate a plurality of products. Additionally, the DSP block includes adder circuitry configurable to generate a first sum and a second sum based on the plurality of products.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Inventors: Martin Langhammer, Michael Wu, Nihat Engin Tunali, Ilya Ganusov
  • Patent number: 11210845
    Abstract: Described herein are systems, methods, and computer readable media for performing data conversion on sensor data to obtain modified sensor data that is formatted/structured appropriately for downstream processes that rely on the sensor data as input. The sensor data can include point cloud data captured by a LiDAR, for example. A grid structure and corresponding grid characteristics can be determined and the sensor data can be converted to grid-based sensor data by associating the grid structure and its characteristics with the sensor data. Generating the grid-based sensor data can include reformatting the point cloud data to superimpose the grid structure and its grid characteristics onto the point cloud data. Various downstream processing that cannot feasibly be performed on the raw sensor data can then be performed efficiently on the modified grid-based sensor data by virtue of the grid structure imbuing the sensor data with spatial proximity information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Pony AI Inc.
    Inventors: Pingfan Meng, Michael Wu, Brian James Rush
  • Patent number: 11170345
    Abstract: A content management system aggregates and provides users' interaction with a content item for display in an activity feed. Events corresponding to the users' interaction with the content item are provided in conjunction with a user interface of a native application displaying the content item. Though provided in conjunction with the native application, the events are maintained separate from the content data of the content item and displayed in the activity feed by an application separate from the native application of the content item. The activity feed permits users to exchange chat messages and retrieve information for multiple versions of the content item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Dropbox Inc.
    Inventors: Anvisha Pai, Michael Wu, Martin Pedrick, William Trueman Wood, Shravan Gottipalli Reddy
  • Patent number: 11172004
    Abstract: A content management system allows users to collaboratively edit, draft, or otherwise work with the same content item simultaneously by displaying a real-time data stream of a native application displaying a content item on a host device in a screen sharing window of a webpage. The screen sharing window is capable of receiving edit inputs and sending the edit inputs to a client application on the host device. The edit inputs are provided as interpretable code for the native application for the content item and the client application provides the interpretable code to the native application to have the changes corresponding to the edit inputs incorporated into the content item. Further, the cursors of other users participating in the collaborative editing session are displayed in the screen sharing window to allow each participant to view and follow the changes made by the other participants of the session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: Min Ming Lo, Michael Wu, Shravan Reddy
  • Publication number: 20210335033
    Abstract: Described herein are systems, methods, and computer readable media for performing data conversion on sensor data to obtain modified sensor data that is formatted/structured appropriately for downstream processes that rely on the sensor data as input. The sensor data can include point cloud data captured by a LiDAR, for example. A grid structure and corresponding grid characteristics can be determined and the sensor data can be converted to grid-based sensor data by associating the grid structure and its characteristics with the sensor data. Generating the grid-based sensor data can include reformatting the point cloud data to superimpose the grid structure and its grid characteristics onto the point cloud data. Various downstream processing that cannot feasibly be performed on the raw sensor data can then be performed efficiently on the modified grid-based sensor data by virtue of the grid structure imbuing the sensor data with spatial proximity information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2020
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Inventors: Pingfan Meng, Michael Wu, Brian James Rush
  • Publication number: 20210321085
    Abstract: A passive component for coupling to, and thereby tracking, an intermediary device within a cable television system is disclosed. The passive component includes a tracking circuit separate in functionality from an existing circuit of the intermediary device. The tracking circuit, which is unpowered and uncontrolled, receives a first signal from a first device in the cable television system, modifies the first signal to create a modified signal, and passes the modified first signal to a second device in the cable television system, the second device being configured to determine a type for the intermediary device based on the modification to the first signal. The first device is one of a cable modem or a CMTS, and the second device is the other of the cable modem and the CMTS.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Inventors: David WACHOB, Neil TANG, Michael WU
  • Patent number: 11057615
    Abstract: A system, method, and/or apparatus may track an intermediary device within a communications system. For example, a first signal may be transmitted from a first device in a communications system to the intermediary device in the communications system. The first signal from the first device may be modified (e.g., by a passive component of the intermediary device) to create a modified signal. The modified signal may be passed by the intermediary device to a second device in the communications system. The second device may be upstream or downstream from the first device and the intermediary device in the communications system. A type for the intermediary device may be determined based on the modification to the first signal. The second device may be configured to determine an identify of the first device associated with the intermediary device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Inventors: David Wachob, Neil Tang, Michael Wu
  • Patent number: 11032332
    Abstract: A service with a plurality of communication sessions may be relocated from a first server to a second server based on performance indicators associated with the communication sessions, among other things.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Michael Wu, Barrett Kreiner
  • Publication number: 20210135692
    Abstract: An apparatus comprises an RF receiver for receiving an RF signal. The RF receiver includes front-end circuitry to generate a first down-converted signal, and a plurality of signal detectors to generate a corresponding plurality of detection signals from signals derived from the down-converted signal. The RF receiver further includes a controller to provide at least one control signal to the front-end circuitry based on the plurality of detection signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Inventors: Hendricus de Ruijter, Güner Arslan, Wentao Li, Michael Wu
  • Publication number: 20210092172
    Abstract: A content management system allows users to collaboratively edit, draft, or otherwise work with the same content item simultaneously by displaying a real-time data stream of a native application displaying a content item on a host device in a screen sharing window of a webpage. The screen sharing window is capable of receiving edit inputs and sending the edit inputs to a client application on the host device. The edit inputs are provided as interpretable code for the native application for the content item and the client application provides the interpretable code to the native application to have the changes corresponding to the edit inputs incorporated into the content item. Further, the cursors of other users participating in the collaborative editing session are displayed in the screen sharing window to allow each participant to view and follow the changes made by the other participants of the session.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Inventors: Min Ming Lo, Michael Wu, Shravan Reddy
  • Patent number: 10952079
    Abstract: A Wi-Fi virtualized network operator (WVNO) function can be created by offering resources of a wireless access point (AP), for example, a Wi-Fi access point, to one or more third party service providers. In one aspect, the AP can broadcast two or more service set identifiers (SSIDs) that are linked to respective service provider over the same frequencies. End user devices (EUDs) located within the coverage area of the AP can select a SSID corresponding to a preferred network and connect to the preferred network via the access point. A routing device can be employed to direct traffic to/from the EUDs and a device of an appropriate network based on the SSID that has been selected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Michael Wu, Barrett M. Kreiner
  • Patent number: 10893081
    Abstract: A content management system allows users to collaboratively edit, draft, or otherwise work with the same content item simultaneously by displaying a real-time data stream of a native application displaying a content item on a host device in a screen sharing window of a webpage. The screen sharing window is capable of receiving edit inputs and sending the edit inputs to a client application on the host device. The edit inputs are provided as interpretable code for the native application for the content item and the client application provides the interpretable code to the native application to have the changes corresponding to the edit inputs incorporated into the content item. Further, the cursors of other users participating in the collaborative editing session are displayed in the screen sharing window to allow each participant to view and follow the changes made by the other participants of the session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: Min Ming Lo, Michael Wu, Shravan Reddy
  • Patent number: 10866926
    Abstract: The disclosed technology relates to a system configured to receive a first input into a search interface and perform a first search based on the first input, wherein the first search is performed on a first set of content items managed by a content management system. The system further receives a second input into the search interface and performs, in response to receiving the second input, a second search based on the first input, wherein the second search is performed on a second set of content items managed by the content management system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: Timo Mertens, Mariana Stepp, Sam Jau, Michael Wu
  • Publication number: 20200279472
    Abstract: Described are various embodiments of a hand wash monitoring device, system and method. In some embodiments, the device is to be mounted in a vicinity of a corresponding sink to monitor, for a given user, a designated hand washing sequence of designated hand washing activities comprising at least a sink-based washing activity and an external washing activity in accordance with respective prescribed washing activity durations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Inventors: Parham Chinikar, Marawan Abdel Hameed, Ming Jia Michael Wu, Luke Kyne